This isn’t going to be a good column. I fell behind schedule. Just kidding – of course this is going to be a good column. You read the byline. The only thing is that if I were applying what I’ve learned from my professors so far in college, that first sentence would’ve been true. I’m calling you teachers out – I’m tired of being told in every class that we’ve “fallen behind the curriculum” and “we have a lot of work to make up.” Maybe if every class every year is falling behind, then we should redefine what “behind” is.

It’s like on every late-night TV talk show when they start off by saying, “We’ve got a great show tonight,” when every teacher starts class with “We’ve got a lot to do today.” Save it; we understand. Conan O’Brien’s not going to come out and say, “Tonight’s show is a bit crappy,” just like you’re not going to start off class with, “We really don’t have anything to cover.” Every class, we just get reminded how we’re far behind and how there’s not enough time. Of course there’s not enough time. I wasn’t expecting to learn every bit of American history since the Civil War in one semester, nor do I want to – history is boring.

Every time this happens, the students are made to feel bad because it was somehow our fault. Typically, teachers will load up 156,000 slides into a PowerPoint presentation and then spend the last five minutes of a 45-minute class lamenting how we barely made a dent. That’s not our fault. Learn to condense … sir.

So we get 14 assignments per weekend once our teachers realize we’re not going to get through their whole ridiculous syllabus, and to me, that’s crazy. How come they don’t just disregard the stuff we didn’t get to? It must not be that important if you didn’t allot any time to teach it. Just let it go. I know you want to do regression graphs, but it’s OK. I’ll make it without them. And if I won’t, then you should’ve taught them before the semester ended.

It makes as much sense as low-carb beer. It’s about as annoying as those Tammy Darvish commercials, and so many more analogies. When the semester starts, there aren’t any questions about how many minutes we’re going to have in each class. It doesn’t sneak up on you. The calendar we’re going with this year is going to be Gregorian, just FYI. We’re not switching to Incan in October. We’re sticking with Gregorian, pretty much for the foreseeable future. Plan accordingly.

I understand you can’t perfectly map out a semester all the time, but you should be able to get pretty close. It’s just an example of shoddy work when you run out of time and just have to cut it off in th

Rob Gindes is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at gindesdbk@gmail.com.